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Subject: Moving threads?
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Shouldn't moved threads be deleted instead of locked? This doesn't happen too often, but when a forum is full of moved threads, it can really clog up the page. It doesn't look as smooth and clean. Besides, if you go to a forum, you want to see topics about what that forum is for - not a bunch of locked threads about something completely different.

I of course realize the downside of this. A poster checks back on his thread in a forum to notice that it's gone. Maybe he thinks it's on the 2nd page or something, but he soon realizes it's actually gone. Then he proceeds to post some unnessecary comment about "OMGz!!!!!!!!!1 \/\/h3r3 b3 my 7hr34d!!!1"

Here's my suggestion. The thread is moved along with all of it's replies and such - just like how it is now. But instead of keeping the old post, locking it, and showing the "This thread has moved...yada yada" an automated PM is sent to the person who started the thread saying basically the exact same thing that is now said in the forum post (including a link to where their thread now resides)

Now, I realize this still isn't perfect. In general threads are locked for a reason. Other members can see locked threads and it serves as a type of "warning" for them. So you could make the argument that there will actually be more off topic threads in one space if this is implemented. But in truth, it really depends. If some one isn't going to read the rules, would they read the other posts being locked in the forum? It's more likely, but I'm not sure if it's enough to say that the forums would look worse.

What do you guys think. It's pretty much a toss-up between how the forum looks and letting members see others' mistakes. Which is more important?

  • 10.20.2005 3:35 PM PDT
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I think this way is better. It is often not just the original poster who wishes to follow the thread. Locking the thread is like a memo that will be moved down the list as soon as there is enough activity to move it down. Once it is locked, while it is off topic, it is not going to hang around. It is not like locking a thread or eleting a thread because of spam, just that someone posted in the wrong place.

I thing easy of navigation and ease of use is more important than looks... at least until we get the infamous Search.

  • 10.20.2005 3:51 PM PDT

http://www.bungie.net/fanclub/atticus/Group/GroupHome.aspx

¶ Ya know, I have been wondering almost the exact same thing for ages.. I just didnt htink it as posible and it didnt bother me much. I would love to see it. And nicely put also ex.. ¶

  • 10.20.2005 3:55 PM PDT

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The issue with not leaving a notice behind when a thread is moved is that a large number of people don't see their thread, and either a) assume it vanished and repost it in the incorrect place, or b) assume it was deleted and become upset.

  • 10.20.2005 4:24 PM PDT

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That is why he said the PM notification. To have it auto, if possible. So that they dont do that, generally, people check thier PM's before doing other stuff. And the bar that they appear in seems to reload itself when you get one often.

  • 10.20.2005 4:44 PM PDT

If a thread doesn't have any replies and it needs to be moved, I don't leave behind a locked "Moved" thread, I just PM the originator telling him that the thread has been moved and I give him a link to the thread. If a thread has replies in it and needs to be moved, I leave behind the locked "Moved" thread because it is an easier way to tell all of those involved in the thread that the thread has been moved, rather than PMing all of them with a link to the thread.

Laziness? Maybe. I like to call it efficiency.

  • 10.21.2005 2:50 AM PDT

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I like that. I do think the locked moved thread in other forums than the septgon may be useful, but here, none of us really care if it was moved or not. Usually someone replies wrong forum, and thats it. I havent seen too many where we all start discussing something here.

O well, like I said, I didnt see a point in it to much but felt lke giving my opinion anyway.

  • 10.21.2005 6:46 AM PDT
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I prefer seeing a link to the moved post. The only fair PM system would be to send a PM to everybody who hit the topic, and I don't want to receive a dozen PMs just for clicking a link. And I think it's fairly well established that there's no way to present the forums well, morons will still be morons and anyone with something decent to say will say it. Besides, moderators have the option to just delete redirections if the threads to which they pertain are of little real value or have no responses.

  • 10.21.2005 12:44 PM PDT